All Ears: The Final Episode

This episode originally aired Saturday, March 09, 2013.

Saturday, June 28, 2014

Four years ago, host Terrance McKnight launched All Ears as a weekly show about musical discovery. Covering a wide range of styles, genres and periods, the show reflected the increasingly commonplace belief that we live in a boundary-less world when it comes to musical taste. Terms like "pop" and "classical" are increasingly irrelevant.

The show – which was honored with an ASCAP Deems Taylor Radio Broadcast Award in 2010 – has now run its course and will be replaced next week by WQXR's regular playlist format from 10 pm to midnight.

For this final episode, we revisit some of the sounds of Terrance's adopted city of New York. We hear Duke Ellington’s Tone Parallel to Harlem and Aaron Copland’s The City. The program also features New York composer and clarinetist Don Byron, such remarkable pieces as Louis Andriessen's Bells for Haarlem (the Dutch version) and to close, a piano work by the jazz pianist Marcus Roberts.

Comments [11]

WHY? Will Terrance McKnight host any other shows? I so enjoyed All Ears; in fact I was very bothered recently when I found myself unable to stream it anymore. Now - nothing!WHY? Please, at least give us an explanation. Thank you for the programmes I was able to stream. I so enjoyed this programme, I just can tell you how much. It truly was my favourite, very favourite, WQXR programme.Rita Jones

Well,if this show has "run its course",whatever that means,what about expanding Movies on the Radio to 2 hours.I look forward to it all day. If that is too controversial,could you use this time for longer works,like Mahler symphonies or music by other composers of the 20th & 21st centuries. REALLY,what would be the harm in that? Oh,Rob,forget about an explanation. If past is prelude,"run its course" will be it!

I discovered so much great music with this show. For those of us eager for something different, this was truly a godsend. So sad to see it go. Terrance, thanks for a wonderful four years. We are all the richer for it.

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About All Ears with Terrance McKnight

All Ears with Terrance McKnight is a weekly show about musical discovery. Covering a wide range of styles, genres and periods, the show celebrates the diverse musical passions of its host, Terrance McKnight, as well as occasional guests -- including performers, composers, choreographers, critics and others. As music and ideas are experienced side by side, the power of music to transform is revealed and celebrated.